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Dear HG, I never see protein powder in your daily emails or recipes. What's your take on it? Pondering Protein Powder
Dear Pondering,
Good Q! I LOVE protein, and I eat a lot of foods packed with the stuff: fat-free Greek yogurt, egg scrambles, lean meats, sushi... You get the picture! Because of this, I don't really need to add protein powder (or the calories that come with it) to beverages. In general, I'd rather eat my calories than drink them. That said, protein powder can be a GREAT option if you need a protein boost in your diet... especially if you're having a smoothie or shake as a meal replacement. My protein-powder picks are vanilla-flavored ones that have 100 calories or less per 1-oz. scoop, like the kind by Designer Whey. And keep the overall stats of that smoothie in check by limiting high-calorie ingredients like peanut butter, granola, and even full-sugar juice. Click here for more smoothie tips and recipes! Wanna get creative with that protein powder? Try adding a couple of tablespoons (about 1/3 oz.) to an HG growing oatmeal bowl! I've tried this, and it's really good. Just stir it in after cooking, so it doesn't clump. And remember to count those extra calories. What are YOUR favorite protein powders? Which brands and flavors do you love? Click here, and let me know on Facebook!
Hi Hungry Girl, I love your recipes... I use them almost daily! I can't seem to get the hang of foil packs, though. I've tried to make a few of them and have had a little trouble with cook times. What could I be doing wrong? Foiled Franny
Hi Franny,
Yay, so glad you love the recipes! I'm obsessed with foil packs -- you can throw everything into one packet of foil, and it all cooks up together and requires very little cleanup. Here are a few tips to help you perfect your foil-pack technique...
Aluminum all-star… First things first, stock up on heavy-duty aluminum foil, not standard foil. You need the sturdy stuff!
Seal the deal... When you fold up your foil, really make sure that you form a tightly sealed package, firmly securing all four edges of the foil. This way the steam won't escape, which would alter the cook time. Speaking of which, there needs to be some room for the steaming action to happen. So leave a little space above the food when closing things up.
The right cut... When you're prepping your proteins, stick closely to the ingredient specifications. Big chunks of chicken will take longer to cook than 1-inch chicken cubes. And a large chicken breast won't cook as quickly as a cutlet that's been pounded to 1/2-inch thickness. The same goes for veggies...
Oven lovin'... Still having trouble with the cook times? Pick up an oven thermometer to check the temp inside your oven. You might be surprised to find that the built-in temperature gauge is off. And don't forget to always fully preheat the oven!
If all else fails, grill 'em... It's fun for summer and it cuts the cook time in half! If the recipe calls for 375 degrees in the oven, grill at medium heat; 400 degrees converts to medium-high heat; and 425 degrees means high heat on the grill. Keep the grill cover down, and have a baking sheet or large plate handy to place your pack on once it's done!
Hope that helps! In case you missed 'em, click here for a couple of foil packs from last year: the Herbed-Up Spring Chicken Packet and the Super-Special Chicken Sausage 'n Squash Pack. And don't miss the "Foil Packs" chapter of HUNGRY GIRL TO THE MAX! There are THIRTY-THREE recipes for foil packs in there!
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I finally got the HUAWEI EM770W that is one of the 3G modems that Lenovo recommended for use in my S10-3t.
Lenovo tech support rep wrote it on my notepad when I gave her machine control.?! She even gave me a case number and her name.
Lenovo Tech Support recommends these 3G modems 6/14/2010
1. Ericsson F3607gw: 0BDB_1905, 0BDB_1907
2. Huawei EM770/770U/770W: 12D1_1003, 12D1_1001, 12D1_1404
3. Qualcomm GOBI: 05C6_9204, 05C6_9205
4. Huawei EM660: 12D1_1001 12D1_1404
I just got the modem in from Hong Kong. Pretty fast service I must say.
Now to installing it. Gulp!
Can anyone give guidance on this installation?
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Hi and welcome , be sure have latest BIOS 25 installed...
download Huawai WWAN Driver .. remove battery remove powerplug open the bottom lid... locate the empty minipci-e slot.. insert card .. plug main and second antenna (labeled wire ends) borrow one screw from WLAN Card to fix your card.. insert SIMCARD in SIM-Card-Reader ... close lid ...
plug in battery and powerplug... press start button in windows click on previously downloaded driver unzip and go in extracted folder click setup to install the driver... press Fn-F5 menu to switch 3G on ...
Use a mobile connect manager to connect...
sincerely KalvinKlein
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Thanks KalvinKlein! Your advice is very clear. I have a deal with Fry's Electronics to install the modem because that is where I initially bought the S10-3t. I am sure they will appreciate having at least one knowledgable lead as they install this 3G modem, which as far as I understand is one of the fastest units on the Lenovo rcommended list.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - Oceanside, CA, USA
Well it was a day full of Lenovo 3G installation for me. I took my Lenovo S10-3t and the HUAWEI EM770W to Fry's and took them up on their offer to install it for me. The original price quote was $35 for the installation, but that would have meant that I left it with them over the fourth of July weekend and I was tired of waiting. It's been over 3 months since I first started this quest to make this netbook be a real netbook with full 3G capability.
I brought all of KalvinKleins instructions loaded on my brower including the links for BIOS 25 and up to date HUAWEI drivers. In order to be present while they attempted the installation, I had to pay $100. Fry's service department jumped right on the issue with their most knowledgable Lenovo notebook guy. He worked from 16:00 hour to about 19:00 hours and than had to get off the clock. The "project" was picked up by the next tech, who was only partially involved because he also had to handle counter customers. Finally at 19:40 hours he said it was done but that there were screens that only I could fill in which asked for ATT activation code that I had no knowledge about.
So I packed up and drove to ATT store nearby and got in just as they were getting ready to close at 20:00 hours. They were kind enough to get me connected by phone to ATT laptop support. The agent was a delightful lady name "Princess" who was working out of Louisiana. She helped procure the needed numbers and we also uninstalled the new drivers and re-installed. Then after a long install it was done. We restarted the computer and it connected to ATT network. I was thrilled for about a minute.
She asked me to launch a brower. I tried Firefox, Internet Explorer and even Windows Live but none would connect to the test. We opened ipconfig and tried every command in her book. Nothing would go through. Did many other steps that I cannot recall with resetting stacks and so forth. Nothing would allow actual connection even though ATT Communications showed that we were connected. The staff was turning lights out and vacuuming the carpet around me as we persisted but Princess finally decided that it would be best for ATT to call me back at home tomorrow morning. She said they would contact Lenovo directly and see if they had an application specifically designed for the HUAWEI card.
Fair enough. Tomorrow at 10:00 hours we begin the next phase. If anyone knows of either a HUAWEI or Lenovo equivalent of ATT Communication Mangager. Sort of like "Watcher" is for Sierra Wireless modems, than please rife the details here so we have all the tools needed tomorrow.
So close yet so far away.
It's the 4th of July and I should be going down to the beach, but I'd rather make sure that WE are clear on the status of my Lenovo Ideapad as of today. It now has BIOS 25 installed, HUAWEI EM770W 3g modem installed, and the drivers for the modem installed. Fry's Customer Service department, where this "netbook" was purchased did the installation.The "finished" installation requested information that could only be obtained through AT&T network.
Contacted AT&T support by land line from inside an AT&T store and their "Laptop Support" department recommended re-installing the HUAWEI EM770W drivers. After re-installing we checked device manager and the 3G modem showed up as correctly installed. Started AT&T Communication Manager and it allowed connection of this Ideapad to AT&T network in 3G with 3-4 bars. All seemed fine but when we opened browsers they did not access the internet.
On July 3, 2010 got a call from AT&T support who connected me to Lenovo Technical Support. In order to work with all the tools at our disposal I had to move to a location where I had a land line phone, a cellular phone, the Ideapad with AT&T SIM installed and broadband ethernet connection. I moved to a friendly neighbor's house who would allow the hookup.
Lenovo Technical Support called me via my cellphone and we went through preliminary checks. The Ideapad was showing connection to AT&T 3G network with 4 bars but again no browsers would connect to the network. Plugged Lenovo into the broadband ethernet connection and the browsers would then connect to the network and operated normally. Lenovo Technical Support than asked for direct control of my machine while I watched and had voice communication via cell phone. They tweaked and tested and could NOT come up with why the 3G connection was not working. By day's end I was promised an elevation of the Case [I paid for this support!] and that would come after the 4th of July. Please understand that for the Lenovo Tech support center in the Philiippines it is already July 5th as I am writing and they have not called yet. So I will assume [Gulp!] that they are referring to July 5th in North America.
Netbooks Philippines has some of the most advanced "tweakers" or "hackers" for netbooks in the world. I suspect that this is due to their proximity to the Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers of the components that make almost all netbooks. In any event they are doing some of the most advanced work in getting 3G to work with netbooks.
In several of their articles on the subject they refer to "hacking" the VID/PID of the BIOS. I would ask Lenovo Support to carefully check into some of the solutions they discuss as well as whitelisting by cellular carriers and/or Lenovo itself.
At Videography Lab we draw the line at "hacking" because it runs outside the products warranty. So we have been very careful to allow only the responsible commercial entities listed below in order of appearance to work on the machine:
Fry's Electronics, Lenovo, AT&T, HUAWEI should get their systems together to make this Ideapad S10-3t Netbook / Tablet connect to the web with the internal 3G modem.
With such a great group of partners what could go wrong?
You don't need to "hack" your BIOS since you are already using an approved Lenovo modem (Huawei). As for your connection manager not connecting to AT&T, have you tried looking in the Profile settings and see if the APN, username and password are set correctly? Also, is your sim card set for data connection?
Here in the Philippines, all sim cards are configured to connect to internet. It's just a matter of setting the proper Profiles.
I just called Lenovo Technical support and had an extended conversation with Jessie ______ who would not provide his last name but did say he was working in the Philippines and was at a high level of support. I recorded the entire conversation on video to keep the record straight. He said and I paraphrase:
"Lenovo does not know how to enable the S10-3t for the HUAWEI EM770W 3G modem at this time." He questioned whether the Microsoft Windows Starter edition could do the job and recommended updating to Windows Home Premium. I wonder why they would install Windows 7 starter if it would not work.
He reviewed the new AT&T "Global Research Client" and was quite impressed but did not have any experience with this latest communications management tool. It appears that nobody from the commercial side of this daisy chain of corporate interests: Lenovo. the manufacturer of the S10-3t - Fry's Electronics, the seller of the computer, installer of additional memory and installer of the 3G card - eBay, the middleman who advertises and sells the variety of Lenovo recommended 3G cards from Hong Kong Sellers - AT&T, the 3G network that we use and who provided the software for "connectivity" - HUAWEI, who manufactures the EM770W and other "compatible" 3G cards - and Microsoft, who creates the Windows 7 in all it's different levels of capability are going to step up and make the Lenovo S10-3t work as a NETBOOK!
Jessie agreed to refund my extended service charge for their support of their product.
So does ANYONE have suggestions on how we should proceed?
Thank you if your out there and can help.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - Oceanside, CA, USA
Hello Bob. I understand your frustrations. However, I can attest to what Jessie said based on the fact that no 3G modem is available in the marker here in the Philippines, Lenovo approved or otherwise. Lenovo doesn't sell them either. Heck, even the 8-cell battery isn't available here. I got my modems somewhere else. I personally installed about 4 huawei EM770W modems already and I'm telling you that it's the easiest. You can even do it yourself. BTW, I was the one who did the review of S10-3T over a Netbooks Philippines. :) The Sierra Wireless modems are a bit of a pain but still doable except for the MC8781 :(
Just install the Huawei modem, boot your 3T and install the drivers. It's been available at the lenovo website though not at the s10-3t page. Click here. Notice the filesize (12.5MB) coz it includes the connection manager too. No need to use the AT&T connection manager since the Huawei drivers also installs its own connection manager. No need to upgrade to Home Premium too.
If you need further help, just PM me. No need to pay for any support too LOL
I wrote you back by IM but received no reply. This morning I achieved connectivity on a US carrier with the S10-3t and HUAWEI EM770W using only their Mobile Partner software. It was not AT&T!
Which prompts me to tell a story of my trip to the Philippines. I came to do a documentary video and had a Samsung Memoir that was unlocked. I also brought a Gateway laptop connected via Sierra Wireless Lightning [also unlocked].
Went to the Asia Mall and got the cellphone connected by simply buying a Smart Buddy SIM and bingo . . . I was connected. The Smart Bro services would not sell me a SIM and insisted that I use their Smart Bro USB dongle on the notebook.
Service outside the major cities in Luzon was spotty to non existent. When I could get a good signal I was able to use the cell phone for calls and text. The computer was much more problematic. I rarely could get a download of gmail outside of Manila. For all practical purposes Smart Buddy was useless.
When I flew back to Hawaii I reversed the process and put my original cellphone SIM in the phone and I was connected and all was well. Not so with the computer. When I put the Sierra Lightning back into the USB it would not connect. So I took it to the carriers store and they replaced the SIM with a new one and then it connected.
So as I now see it there are five S10-3ts that have been connected to 3G carriers . . . 4 by you and one by me. It would be a good thing for us to communicate.
Bob Kiger - Videography Lab - Oceanside, CA
Glad you finally got to make your Huawei work :). When was your trip here? Coz now, you can just buy any SIM and you'd be connected to the internet, whether it's SmartBuddy or SmarBro. No need to buy the dongle if you already have the 3g modem in your notebook, provided that it's unlocked.
However, it's still true that signal outside of Manila is still a bit problematic, since it's still EDGE. But in most big cities, even outside of Manila i.e. North or South, all 3 Carriers here are already 3G capable. You just need to tweak your frequency settings in the Connection manager to use 3G only since by default, 3G signal downshifts to EDGE when your signal has only two-three bars. If set to 3G only, it will stay on 3G regardless of your signal strength. The downside though is that when the area still has no 3G signal, you won't be able to see the Carrier and won't be able to connect. That's the only time you switch your frequecy settings to 3G preferred.
As for the five s10-3ts you mentioned that have been connected to 3G carriers, I would have to update you on that since I was only talking of Huawei modems. All in all, I've installed also more than two dozens MC8775 on 3ts and so far no one has come back yet to complain :D
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Women's Under Armour Switch It Up Reversible Beanie Hat
Switch it up and stay cozy in the Women's Under Armour Switch It Up Reversible Beanie Hat. Woven with an acrylic and spandex blend, you get a cozy, one size fits all feel that locks in the heat for that noggin'. Flip it one way and you get an eye-catching striped pattern and flip it another to display the two-colored knit with the "under armor" lettering. No matter how you rock it, the 4-Way Stretch construction means a secure fit and ultimate comfort for any chilly weather.
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Blog Tour:
Waiting on Summer
Bella Settarra
Jun 9th – Jun 16th
'WAITING ON SUMMER' by BELLA SETTARRA
'Collar and Cuffs' Book One
He can dominate her body, but he can't control her past…
After fleeing to Miami to escape her junkie ex-boyfriend, Summer Marsden finds work as a waitress upstairs in the swanky restaurant and gentlemen's club, Collar and Cuffs. Although she loves the job, her big mouth gets her into trouble. Intending to resign before she causes more problems, she finds herself face-to-face with the enigmatic and dangerously handsome Nathan Faulkener.
Nathan irons out her problem and takes her downstairs to the Bottom Bar, which she discovers is actually an exclusive BDSM club within Collar and Cuffs. Nathan re-ignites her passion for BDSM, and their desire for each other explodes. He wants nothing more than to solve all Summer's problems and give her the world, but she has secrets she's never told, and a sordid, dangerous history that won't stay in the past. When her ex shows up gunning for revenge, even Nathan might not be strong enough to save her…
Reader discretion: contains light BDSM, whipping, and spanking elements
In Bella's world all the heroes are gorgeous hunks and the heroines are always beautiful. Having said that, she firmly believes that 'handsome is as handsome does' and that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'. (She is also a big fan of clichés as well as alliteration!)
She has been hanging out with her 'imaginary friends' for a couple of years now and finds the profession exhilarating and intriguing. Her stories are all Erotic Romances, although they vary considerably in subject-matter.
One of the things she absolutely loves to write is light BDSM and her Collar and Cuffs series (Etopia Press) received an ARe Bestseller Award for Waiting on Summer, which has also been nominated for a BDSM Con Golden Flogger Award. This series was set in a BDSM club in Miami, and was a joy to write.
She also loves writing Cowboy Romances and was thrilled when the first book in her The Men of Moone Mountain series, (Etopia Press), entitled Ménage on Moone Mountain, received a nomination for the Ménage Romances Fan's Award 2015 and became an ARe Bestseller, and the third book in this series, Ménage on Ryder Ranch was also nominated for the Erotic Ménages Romances Award 2016 . The fourth book in this series, Ménage at the Mode Boutique is now also available in digital format. She is currently writing another Cowboy series, Midnight in Montana (Siren Publishing), the first of which, Dallas at Midnight, is already available, while the second book, Meet Me at Midnight, is due for publication in June 2016.
Her writing career began, however, in the fantasy/myth genre, with her first series Sirens and Sailors (Siren Publishing). Although this was a series of six novels, it actually started out as a short story! This was a delight to write and was proof positive that her High School Classical Studies lessons weren't entirely wasted.
She has also had a couple of short stories published in Men for Hire and Men for Hire 2 (Luminosity Publishing) and even had some rather raunchy poems included in Coming Together in Verse.
Not everyone is perfect – but it's the character flaws which make them interesting, she believes. As in life, things don't always run smoothly, but it's the twists and turns which provide the drive to keep going, even when it just feels like an uphill struggle. Bella is currently fighting her own battle against breast cancer – a battle which she is determined to win – and believes that all women have the right to feel sexy even when they are battle-scarred.
She hopes you enjoy your foray into her world and would love to connect with you at:


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Networks and discussion
- International Workshop on Molecular Gastronomy (IWMG) at Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Siciliy. Until 2001, the workshop was termed "International School of Molecular and Physical Gastronomy" (ISMPG). For those interested Harold McGee has written about the early history of the Erice meetings.
- 1992, 1st meeting
- 1995, 2nd meeting: Sauces or dishes made from them
- 1997, 3rd meeting: Heat in cooking
- 1999, 4th meeting: Food flavors – how to get them, how to distribute them, how to keep them
- 2001, 5th meeting: Textures of Food: How to create them?
- 2004, 6th meeting: Interactions of food and liquids
- The Molecular Gastronomy Discussion List
- INICON – a collaboration financed by the EU (read more here) for the introduction of new technology and molecular gastronomy into restaurants. They also host a forum. They have also recently published a lot on molecular gastronomy, texture and flavour (almost 60 separate pdf's to download – but unfortunately the site seems to be down now…)
Academia, foundations and seminars in Europe
- INRA Seminars on molecular gastronomy (INICON page, INRA page, reports)
- Molecular gastronomy seminars at Université de Neuchâtel, organized by Marc Heyraud
- The French Culinary Institute has several interesting classes on food technology including ones on sous-vide and hydrocolloids plus a special Harold McGee lecture series
- Food, myths and molecules – course at Lund University, Sweden
- Fundació ALImentació i CiènCIA (aka ALICIA) – in cooperation with Ferran Adria
- The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark
- Department of Restaurant and Culinary Arts (Örebro University, Sweden)
- Food Culture (Volda, Norway)
- The perception and sensory science resources center (Sociedad Española de Ciencias Sensoriales)
- Molekulares kochen – German company offering workshops, courses and events
- Stimulus consulting – Finnish consulting company dealing with innovation and food science
- Cook & chemist – Duth site offering courses on molecular gastronomy
- Ciencia con buen gusto – Spanish site dealing with cooking and popular science, especially directed towards an educational setting
- Weurman Flavour research symposium 2005
Academia, foundations, seminars in America
- The Experimental Cuisine Collective
- Asociacion Argentina de Gastronomia Molecular (they also have a blog)
- Gastronomy lab in Brazil
- Institute of Culinary Education
- Research Chefs Association (Culinology)
- The International Association of Culinary Professionals (check out their blog as well)
- Institute of Food Technologists
- Monell Chemical Senses Center -non-profit independent scientific institute
- Food chemistry course at the Faculty of Agricultural Science, University of British Columbia
- Innova Concept


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Selena Gomez + Taylor Swift Bake Cupcakes Together
As if Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez could get any sweeter.
The superstar BFFs recently treated fans to what may be the girliest, most adorable Instagram photo ever: the massively famous hyphenates baked cupcakes together!
Gomez posted pics of herself and Swift in a kitchen with a bowl of icing, ballet poses and two other besties, writing, "Because you need a best friend that's [sic] sings beautifully, another best friend to dance with you and another to listen. Oh and cupcakes... Cupcakes."
There's also a photo of Swift playing guitar for her pals. Sounds like all the ingredients for a fun evening in to us!
This is only the most recent girls' night in for Swift, who recently was snapped playing dress up with a pal. Gomez is no stranger to having fun at a home, either -- just check out her 'Call Me Maybe' video for proof!
Other than award show red carpets, Swift and Sel haven't been spotted together much (minus the last show of Swift's Speak Now tour). It's good to see the gals are still getting their girl time in!


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"Winning is all we know, winning is all we do!"
So sings Snoop Dogg in the new collaborative single released by the rapper and Charlie Sheen, following Sheen's "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour.
The track, released at midnight on Wednesday, is an appropriate tribute to Sheen's whirlwind rise to fame, trademarked catchphrases, booing, and then, an audience base that largely thought Sheen uninteresting.
U.S. & World
The song stars out with a suggestive question from none other than Carmen Electra asking Sheen if he's "winning."
"No, he's smoking right now," Snoop Dogg responds.
Insert the well-placed tiger growl, some auto-tune, several thousand mentions of winning, and you've got your latest meme hit of the summer.


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News Room
Part 2: Conservationists, scientists fear Fisheries Act changes
Otto Langer has devoted his adult life to protecting fish habitat.
Now he wonders if it was all for nothing.
The retired head of habitat assessment and planning for the federal Fisheries Department in B.C. and Yukon describes the Conservative government's planned changes to the Fisheries Act as the biggest setback to conservation law in Canada in half a century.
And he takes it very personally.
"I feel I have wasted my lifetime, that I should have done something else," says Langer, who now predicts a gradual decline in fish habitat if the changes take effect.
Through a massive package of proposed laws in Bill C-38, Ottawa plans to limit federal protection of fish habitat to activities resulting in serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, sport or aboriginal fishery. Across the country, hundreds of scientists have condemned the change.
"It's going to remove freshwater protection for most fishes in Canada, which can't be a good thing," says University of B.C. zoology department professor Eric Taylor, who also co-chairs a federal committee that advises the government on species at risk.
"Habitat is not just a place to live; it's a place to breed, rest, avoid predators, get food."
Taylor argues the Fisheries Department should be fighting for biodiversity. "They should have an interest in protecting Canada's aquatic biodiversity — for all Canadians. They now seem to be abandoning that."
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield has said the changes will focus federal protection efforts "where they are needed," provide clearer and more efficient regulations, and create partnerships with provinces, aboriginal groups and conservation organizations.
He promised to provide better enforcement of the rules, and also to protect "ecologically significant areas," such as sensitive spawning grounds or where the cumulative impact of development is a concern.
So-called minor works, such as cottage docks and irrigation ditches, will be identified and no longer require permits, said Ashfield, who refused to be interviewed for this article.
Critics consider the bill a regressive step that is certain to have serious impacts on fish.
First nations concerned
Margot Venton, a lawyer with the environmental watchdog group Ecojustice, says "minor works" are not mentioned in the proposed revisions.
Instead, the bill would create a framework through which protection for fish and fish habitat "can be suspended for any work, undertaking or activity" on any Canadian fisheries water, she says.
The Assembly of First Nations is also concerned that new regulations could limit opportunities for first nations to engage in the approval processes for major projects.
In contrast to those concerns, the business sector argues the planned changes to the Fisheries Act are needed to foster economic development — not just for mega-projects, such as Enbridge's $5.5-billion Northern Gateway dual-pipeline project.
Northern Gateway would cross some 1,000 streams on its 1,177-kilometre route from Alberta to Kitimat on B.C.'s north coast. A federal panel is reviewing the Enbridge proposal.
John Winter, president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce, says the new rules will benefit "anyone who uses the land," be they small or big business.
He says the changes are long overdue, and Canada's business sector is fed up with the discretionary powers of federal fisheries officers and biologists who protect fish habitat.
"It's significant," Winter says of their impact on the economy. "Impediments to growth — if there was a No. 1 culprit, it would be [the Department of Fisheries and Oceans], followed closely by local governments."
The federal Fisheries Act was enacted in 1868 and amended in 1977 to protect fish habitat.
Section 35 makes it an offence to carry on any work or undertaking that results in harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish habitat, although it provides the minister with discretionary powers to allow destruction.
That sweeping level of protection would be eliminated under Bill C-38, the Conservatives' Budget Implementation Bill, which has received second reading in the House of Commons.
The government would instead prohibit only "serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or aboriginal fishery or fish that support such a fishery."
Serious harm is defined as the "death of fish or any permanent alteration to, or destruction of, fish habitat."
Provinces gain control
Bill C-38 also lays the groundwork for transferring greater responsibility for environmental assessments to the provinces – a concern to critics, given that B.C.'s Environmental Assessment Office has hardly ever rejected a project outright.
A case in point is Taseko Mines' plan to develop its New Prosperity gold-copper deposits in the Chilcotin area southwest of Williams Lake, a project that would have destroyed Fish Lake, Little Fish Lake and portions of Fish Creek, including the loss of 90,000 rainbow trout, for a tailings impoundment area.
A provincial environmental review okayed the mine, saying the economic benefits, including an estimated annual payroll of $32 million, outweighed any environmental damage.
A federal review panel nixed the project due to "significant adverse environmental effects on fish and fish habitat, on navigation, on the current use of lands and resources for traditional purposes by first nations," as well as adverse cumulative effects on grizzly bears in the south Chilcotin region.
A new federal hearing is underway into Taseko's revised plan for the mine site.
Bill C-38 will also introduce time limits, which critics say will result in shoddy assessments on complex and environmentally challenging projects.
The government says the limits are needed to prevent projects from dragging on indefinitely.
They include: 45 days for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to decide if an assessment is required, and up to two years for major reviews by the National Energy Board, with cabinet reserving the right to overturn decisions, including the Northern Gateway project.
"It's part of a whole cultural change," says UBC's Eric Taylor.
"You get the impression Stephen Harper is the captain of a giant battleship and he's just incrementally turning it to the right. It's like he's been chomping at the bit all those years in a minority government and now he can finally make Canada the way it should be."
Two former Progressive Conservative fisheries ministers, John Fraser and Tom Siddon, have also expressed concerns over the federal plan.
In B.C., however, Environment Minister Terry Lake doesn't seem overly worried.
He says the federal changes appear to take a risk-based approach that could reduce red tape for projects that do not pose a serious threat to fish habitat.
"You don't treat every waterway the same way," he says.
On the other hand, critical salmon habitat, such as the Adams River, would continue to receive protection, he says.
Lake does have concerns about the federal government downloading costs to the province, but says he will reserve final judgment until he sees the regulations that will implement the new laws.
Experience shows that habitat loss and degradation – from urban development, farming, resource extraction and hydroelectric dams – are the most serious threats to freshwater fish.
Among those fish that would suffer under the Fisheries Act changes are the Nooksack dace and Salish sucker, both endangered species and listed under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA). They are found in Canada in only a few isolated streams in the Fraser Valley.
Neither are used in commercial, recreational or aboriginal fisheries.
"No one will ever fish for those things except some kid with a little pole on a summer afternoon," Taylor says.
Canada became the first industrialized country in 1992 to ratify the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, an international treaty that responded, in part, to a global loss of aquatic biodiversity.
An Environment Canada website states: "A society that lives and develops as a part of nature, values the diversity of life, takes no more than can be replenished and leaves to future generations a nurturing and dynamic world, rich in its biodiversity."
Protection under SARA kicks in only after a species is in trouble and lacks the broader proactive protection offered by the Fisheries Act for all fish species. The federal government also does not accept all the recommendations of Taylor's advisory body, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, for SARA listings — especially where there could be economic implications.
'Big cracks'
Biologist Mike Pearson of Pearson Ecological in Agassiz helped write the recovery strategy for the Nooksack dace and Salish sucker.
"The changes will remove federal protection for a lot of what has been defined as fish habitat, and there is not much effective provincial legislation to fill the gap," he says. "We're just making big cracks for them to fall through."
He warned it can take several years before Ottawa officially approves a species for listing under SARA and then comes up with a recovery plan that identifies and protects critical habitat. Fish are especially vulnerable because they can be harmed by pollutants entering a river far upstream of their habitat even if it's protected.
For guidance on the fish-habitat issue, environmental groups frequently turn to Otto Langer, who blew the whistle on the planned federal changes after receiving a leaked government document last March.
Langer, a Richmond resident, retired in 2002 after 32 years with the federal Fisheries Department. He worked for the David Suzuki Foundation before leaving for health reasons, and continues to play a leading role in the assessment of regional projects with environmental risks.
As a young stream protection biologist, Langer prepared submissions to the government in 1976 on the need for federal protection of fish habitat – achieved through a Fisheries Act amendment in 1977 — after seeing habitat eroded in the lower Fraser River.
"Damn it, we got that amendment through," he says, noting that B.C. was one of the provinces that unsuccessfully challenged the legislation in court. "I'm still surprised."
Langer says he has watched a steady decline in the application and enforcement of the Fisheries Act over the past decade. Now, he argues, the Conservatives are about to deliver the final blow to fish habitat protection, something he's fought for all his adult life.
The implications, he insists, are dire.
"You could alter habitat, disrupt it, run bulldozers in streams. I think it will be near impossible for a fisheries officer, a biologist, an expert witness to show serious harm."
By Larry Pynn -- Vancouver Sun


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Monarchs lose 4-2 to Portland
Monarchs Press Release:
The Manchester Monarchs fell to the Portland Pirates, 4-2, in game five of the VIP Cup series, presented by VIP Parts, Tires & Service, at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee on Friday night. The Pirates lead the series 3-2.
Manchester (11-11-2-1) ranks fourth in the Atlantic Division with 25 points. The Pirates (13-10-1-1) are tied with the Providence Bruins (13-8-0-2) for second place in the Atlantic Division with 28 points each.
"Once again, we had an opportunity to turn things around and it didn't happen," said Monarch Head Coach Mark Morris. "A few breakdowns spoiled a pretty decent effort. We are close but it's going to take a more complete game to get back in the win column. Hockey is a game of mistakes but the objective is to make fewer than your opponent. Working harder and smarter is what we need right now."
The Pirates regained their lead at 3:45 of the third period. Center Brendan Shinnimin carried the puck down the left wing and snapped a shot on net. Defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson tipped the puck between the legs of Monarchs goaltender Martin Jones to give the Pirates a 3-2 lead. Left wing Ethan Werek picked up an assist on the go-ahead goal.
The Monarchs took the early lead when left wing Dwight King lit the lamp for his fourth goal of the season at 1:19 of the opening frame. Right wing Brandon Kozun skated into the Pirates zone on a breakaway with a Portland defenseman on his heels. Pirates netminder Chad Johnson halted Kozun's shot but King was in the slot to grab the rebound and flip it into the net for the 1-0 advantage.
Portland rebounded and tied the game at 8:12 of the first period. Taking a face-off against Monarchs center Marc-Andre Cliche in the left face-off circle in Manchester's territory, right wing Jordan Szwarz won the draw and fed defenseman Chris Summers in the left corner. Summers connected with defenseman David Rundblad in the right face-off circle for a one-timer that beat Jones for his sixth goal of the season.
Right wing Brett Hextall gave the Pirates their first lead of the game at 3:46 of the second period. As Portland put on pressure in Manchester's zone, left wing Rob Klinkhammer fired a point-blank shot on Jones. The netminder made the save and Ekman-Larsson tried to bang home the rebound. A Monarchs defenseman tied up Ekman-Larsson's stick but Hextall scooped up the puck and squeezed it between Jones and the left post with a wrist shot from the slot for his fourth tally of the season.
Left wing Tanner Pearson evened the score at 2-2 when he netted his fifth goal of the season at 18:47 of the middle stanza. Right wing Tyler Toffoli fed the puck over to Pearson as the pair skated into the Pirates zone. Pearson carried the puck down the left wing as Toffoli crashed the net. As Toffoli reached the crease, Pearson fired the puck on net from the left wing boards as he neared the end red line. Pearson's shot eluded Johnson for the game-tying goal.
Pirates right wing Chris Brown finished off the Monarchs with an empty net goal at 19:59 of the third period for his 10th tally of the season.
Jones (7-11-1) took his 11th loss of the season stopping 24-of-27 shots. Johnson (9-5-0) earned his ninth win of the season making 27 saves on 29 shots.
Manchester went 0-for-1 on the power play. Portland was 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
Notables: The Monarchs trail the Pirates 3-2 in the VIP Cup series…Manchester won the first two games of the VIP Cup series and have dropped the last three games (0-2-1-0)…The Monarchs host game six of the VIP Cup at the Verizon Wireless Arena on Saturday, December 22…Manchester is on a two-game losing streak following their 9-2 victory over the Connecticut Whale on Saturday, December 8…Left wing Dwight King has a goal in each of his last two games.
The Monarchs hop on the bus and head to New York to face-off with the Adirondack Phantoms at the Glens Falls Civic Center at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 15.


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Biodiversity Count
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In this class exercise, students count the number of species they can find in a five minute block of time in both an urban lawn and natural, remnant forest area. The students are introduced to the concept of low and high biodiversity areas and engage in a discussion about biodiversity loss.
Learning Goals
Students will begin to recognize low and high biodiversity areas and understand what affects biodiversity loss.
Context for Use
- This was the students first introduction to the concept of biodiversity. Many students had no or little background in this environmental studies and only basic science education in high school.
- This was taught to advanced high school students in a international studies program. The course was part of an international environmental studies elective course.
- This exercize worked well in a two hour class block.
- We walked outside of our building for the first biodiversity count. We walked down the road 10 minutes to a park with a remnant forest. It was an unmanaged forest and river area with walking paths.
- This type of activity requires an area with low biodiversity and higher biodiversity.
- We used the activity as the beginning of a discussion of biodiversity loss worldwide.
Teaching Materials
No special materials are needed for this activity.
Teaching Notes and Tips
- Have students break into groups of 3 to 4 people.
- Move students outside to an urbanized area, but one with some green space, such as trees or grass. Have students count the number of species that they can find in a five minute block.
- Reassemble large group. Have student groups tell the group the number of species counted.
- Move to a naturalized area. (In this class, we moved to a "natural" city park within walking distance from campus).
- Have students repeat the count.
- In our class, we found that the students were overwhelmed by the number of species in the natural park.
- We used this as a teachable moment to discuss how the whole area used to look like the park before development; this type of biodiversity loss is happening worldwide.
Have students write a one page reflection on biodiversity.
References and Resources
The biodiversity section of Action Bioscience includes information about biodiverity and educator's resources (including power point presentations, overheads, and worksheets).
The The Biodiversity Project has introductory information about biodiversity that was set up for the media and a good list of resources.


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I thought the Gundam at Odaiba was going to be a permanent attraction, but it looks like it'll only be there till the 31st of August. Quite surprising since it'd only been up since July. The weather forecast was for rain, so I thought we'd miss out.
I've only been to Odaiba once, way back here in July 2007. It's not a bad place. There's an (artificial) beach you can't swim at, a shopping mall that looks like Europe (Venus Fort), and a fake Statue Of Liberty. What's not to like?
Compared to other inner Tokyo destinations, it's costs a little more to get there via the Yurikamome line. On a special occasion like this, I thought it'd be interesting to get to Odaiba by walking along the Rainbow Bridge.
An easy way to get there is to catch a Yamanote line train to the Tamachi station. From there, go out the east Shibaura exit and continue in the same southeast direction in a bee-line to the base of the bridge (Shibaura Anchorage).
Staying on the right-hand side of the road you'll find an escalator to take you to the north or south promenade walkway. From April to October it's open from 9-9pm, and 10-6pm the rest of the year.
I'd recommend the North walkway. You can see Tokyo Tower and the more interesting skyline. Also the wind will blow the traffic's exhaust fumes away from you. Getting closer to Odaiba, there's an underpass to the South side allowing you a nice view of the other side too.
The Gundam was located in Shiokaze Park, on the far right side of Odaiba. Even though there was quite a bit of rain the place was packed with like-minded people wanting to see the impressive life-size machine.
We waited in line to go between the legs to touch it, and get a closer look. On the hour, the Gundam came to life moving it's head from side to side (and up!), and smoke coming out of his chest and jets, looking like he was on fire. The mostly Japanese crowd were vocally in awe of this.
Before going home we walked towards Venus Fort and the Ferris wheel. I wanted to see the place where I won my first UFO catcher toy, and to bring back some memories.
I think Odaiba is worth seeing at least once on a visit to Tokyo, maybe even twice. You should definitely get there by walking along the Rainbow Bridge. The views are great and it's not hard to do. On the way back we took the South side.
Remember too, that although the walkway is on the bottom, second level there isn't any shade from the wind or rain. A lesson I learnt pretty quick with a typhoon rain coming through.
If you're in Tokyo you'd want to hurry up to see Gundam. He's on view only until tomorrow!
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Crossing The Rainbow Bridge To Gundam
I thought the Gundam at Odaiba was going to be a permanent attraction, but it looks like it'll only be there till the 31st of August. Quite surprising since it'd only been up since July. The weather forecast was for rain, so I thought we'd miss out.
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Thursday, 27 August 2009
You Are My Hero
A week ago I was perusing Yahoo Auctions Japan for stuff I don't need, as usual.
I spied a Guitar Hero On Tour DS game with the guitar grip for 500 yen. On eBay you can buy a non-genuine controller for around the $12 mark, so this seemed like a bargain.
Stealthily I put my winning bid at 510 yen in the final moments of the auction. (Unlike eBay, Yahoo extends the auction time). Luckily no one upped my bid so it was mine!
Of course postage was extra. With Yamato's COD it was 640 yen for delivery, and the
highway robbers, oops I mean UFJ bank took 262 yen for the bank transfer.
Still, I got it for a great price. I was half asleep early yesterday morning anticipating the delivery guy's knock on my door. Just before noon it arrived. It was wrapped well with bubble wrap and gift wrap like a present on my birthday. nice.
I was quite surprised that under the paper the box was still in unopened shrink-wrap plastic. It was brand new! Also it had the original 4,760 yen sticker price on it. I did well, ne?
It was my day off today. I woke up about 12:30pm. I played Guitar Hero until I went cross-eyed. I'd planned to go to Akihabara today to look at a replacement camera for my Nikon, but got stuck with family tech support again.
There seems to be a sense of urgency. This weekend is the last chance to see the giant full-size Gundam in Odaiba. I thought it was going to be permanent but apparently not. I really don't want to miss out on this photo/video opportunity.
I hope it doesn't rain.
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Brisbane Winter?
Woah, it's been a while since I wrote my last post eh? I thought it was good to have a moment's radio silence to take a break and to give myself a little privacy for a while.
So what did i do in Brisbane? What IS there to do?
First few days I just chilled out and didn't do too much, a look around the city, a Boardwalk Cafe coffee at Southbank.
It was great to drive my car around.
I got a surprise visit from my brother in Sydney. Before I left Tokyo I was thinking of going down to Sydney to visit him. Lucky. It was a surprise that could've gone horribly wrong.
We went to Steve Irwin's ("The Crocodile Hunter") Australia Zoo, an hour's drive north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast. They let us touch the kangaroos and koalas, as well as feeding the elephants. It's a little pricey at $54, but I think it was worth checking out.
Another worthy excursion to do in Brisbane is to ride the City Cats, the commuter ferries that run up and down the river. For $4.40 (off-peak), it's cheap and a great way to see the city from the water.
During the day, the temperature was great. It was constantly around the 26 degree mark. Hard to believe it was winter. A night it was a little chilly but there were still people going out in T-shirts.
It was great catching up with old friends. A drink at the Down Under, visiting a friend in Toowong, eating a nice Korean meal. I even visited my old workplace to see who was still around. I was surprised to see a lot of the old faces. It was great to feel that familiarity. It's the thing that makes me miss home the most.
I brought back the usual "food run" of cheese, Di Bella Coffee and biscuits. I also brought emergency supplies of medicine, deodorants and other bits and pieces.
My hard drive is running out of space so I got a 500GB portable drive and DVD DL burner for backups. I think I'm prepared. I left my SLR to my dad so sometime I'll be looking for a new one.
I watched a few movies while I was there.
I rented out "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" (good), "The Science of Sleep" (looks good, but confusing), and watched "Yes Man" (better than I expected) on the plane.
I hadn't been to the cinema in years now, so desperate to watch a film on the Imax I settled for "Bandslam". It's a typical FAMILY film. Vanessa Hudgens was in it. 'Nuff said. All I could think about was her leaked internet pictures, to excuse her bad acting. Not a bad film, definitely forgettable though.
It's been almost a week now back in Tokyo. Business as usual really. The week went by so fast.
Tokyo says "Irrashaimasu", but I think she doesn't mean it.
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Friday, 7 August 2009
Jimmy In Brisbane
I am now back in Brisbane, and I have to say it was a testing trip to get here with my music gear.
The amp was definitely a major challenge. Not many stations have lifts, and trying to use it on the escalator, it almost tumbled down. We had little choice but to catch the Narita Express train.
As a given, forgetting something when I travel, I left my iPhone behind. Not a biggie but it would've been nice to try it out here.
I was drenched in sweat by the time we got there. To try to avoid getting slammed with oversize baggage charges, we checked in separately. Me, with the amp and carry-on, and her with the guitar and suitcase.
The amp was 26.8kg but they only charged for 6 kilos over and 9,000 yen. The suitcase and guitar I had to pay 12,000 yen. Not bad considering how much it'd cost if I sent them by post. Thankfully both guitar and amp were treated carefully, and look the same as they did in Tokyo.
I'm never going to do the same thing again though. It wasn't easy at all. I won an auction for a step down transformer on eBay, so in a few days I'll be able to give it a go.
I didn't get much sleep on the plane. Luckily we managed to sit together. I drove us all home. Along the way we had a famous Yatala pie. We gave it two thumbs up!
Getting home I slept till 230pm. We went for a drive in my car to the library, Mt Coot-tha lookout and the supermarket. I bought $50 worth of food that's either overpriced or non-existant in Tokyo.
Good to be back.
Monday, 3 August 2009
Pingu From Shinjuku
I was feeling lucky today. Yes, I played the UFO Catchers again..
I saw a black motorised Pingu that was in a pretty good position, but I was after the white one.
I asked them to move it, and he kindly put it in an even better position!
It was a 100 yen machine, so on first go it just gave it a little push, but on the second time, it started to go and with gravity on my side it fell down. Just 200 yen!
For anyone that cares, it was won in the UFO Catcher with no name on the east side of Shinjuku Station. Just put this: 35°41'25.37"N139°42'8.47"E into Google Earth/Maps and you'll find it.
I was going to do a video of the actual catch, but by myself I was worried a lack of concentration might make me fail, so you'll have to do with a video demonstrating the little guy walking across my Mac.
After that we had some 30% donuts from Mister Donut. Not bad but not as good as Krispy Kreme I think.
I minded the seat next to me with our food tray, and a dumb gaijin girl told the gf it was hers from putting a cloth on the seat. We were there first biatch! You know who you are. Go back to your country. They even left their food tray there when they left.
BAD GAIJIN, making the rest of us look bad.
I tried my amp on my el-cheapo trolley. It doesn't seem that strong. Crossin' my fingers.. Only three more sleeps to catching that plane!!
Saturday, 1 August 2009
Kanagawa Shinbun Fireworks
A first for me is going to Yokohama's big fireworks in Minato Mirai. I went straight there after work armed with my SLR and a change of clothes.
From the moment I got on the train I could tell it would be crowded. I always want to take a picture of a packed train, but it's too hard to take the camera out of my bag. There were people everywhere. Lots of girls in yukata too.
We planned to walk to Yamashita Park for a place to eat, sit, watch and drink, but it seemed we walked in almost a circle to end up near Landmark Tower anyway. At least I finished one of my chu-hi along the way. The fireworks started at 7:15pm.
We found a comfortable place to sit next to the Nippon Maru ship, but a tree was in the way, so we moved along slightly and sat on the wall, with the only obscuring view was the Intercontinental hotel in the way. Still, as you can see I managed to take some nice photos.
I ate some yakiniku-style pork and rice. The grapefruit chu-hi is cheap and nasty, like my women.
I played around with shutter settings to get some neat effects. These would've come out better with a tripod, and without drinking alcohol.
Taking a photo of me pretending to look at fireworks. The Landmark Tower behind me is the tallest building in Japan. Did you know?
The fireworks finished up around 8:30pm as you can see by the clock on the Cosmo Wheel. A couple wearing yukata.
Overall it was a fun little outing. I missed a school party tonight, but I really wanted to catch at least one fireworks show before Summer's end so I think it was definitely worth it. On the train I had my third chu-hi, this time a milder peach-flavoured one to keep me inebriated on the longish trip back home.


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Photographs by David Maisel
Texts by Jonathan Lethem and David Maisel
72 pp, 43 color reproductions, 16″ × 12″, casebound
Published by Nazraeli Press
Publication Date: Fall 2011
Maisel's work has always been concerned with processes of memory, excavation, and transformation. These themes are given new form in his latest work, History's Shadow. In this series, Maisel re-photographs x-rays from museum archives that depict artifacts from antiquity, scanning and digitally manipulating the selected source material. X-rays have historically been used by art conservators for structural examination of art and artifacts much as physicians examine bones and internal organs; they reveal losses, replacements, construction methods, and internal trauma invisible to the naked eye. By transcribing both the inner and outer surfaces of their subjects simultaneously, they form spectral images of indeterminate space, depth, and scale. The resulting photographs seem like transmissions from the distant past, both spanning and collapsing time. They express – through feeling and art, as well as science and reason – the shape-shifting nature of time itself, and the continuous presence of the past contained within us. The book contains an original short story by Jonathan Lethem that was inspired by Maisel's images.


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Full disclosure, I know one of the guys who worked on Burt Destruction, which landed on Android and iOS stores a couple weeks ago. Jeff Reitman is the CTO of RunWilder Entertainment, the game's maker. He and I performed in some stand-up comedy showcases together back before I joined Kotaku, and Jeff was a favorite target every time we did a roast together. This game plays like his revenge for that.
Kidding, kidding, folks, Jeff's an expert in his field, having worked for LucasArts (on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed), and has personal experience with things that are really hard and last about 40 seconds. (Waits for it.) Alright, I apologize, it's really unfair to say mean things about a big, sensitive, easy target. But enough about the size of this game's hit box!
OK, now I'll be serious. Burt Destruction is a side-scrolling platformer built on some conventional gameplay themes, underpinned by zany characters and zinger-filled cutscenes that play out like an Adult Swim cartoon. At least, what I've seen of them play out that way, because Burt Destruction can be frustratingly tough even in its earliest stages.
Burt Destruction's premise trades on the kind of lowbrow irony you'd expect from, well, guys like me performing standup comedy. Burt's a slacker twentysomething with a Bigfoot and a dodo for friends, and can briefly transform into a giant indestructible musclehead. He's gone out to destroy Team E.V.I.L., comprising the Yeti and various fanciful beasts like a chupacabra. The Yeti, the leader, wishes to unleash a destructo-ray on the world to make everyone "like me! Hairy." The game's levels are themed to its villains. Two worlds are available so far.
Burt runs automatically, so your only job is to tap the screen to jump (twice to double jump) or tap an icon to summon a friend to help (who acts as a smart bomb, clearing the screen of all threats.) The game's major frustration is in how simple it should all be—just jump over bad guys, maybe land on one or two, pick up the invulnerability icons and cruise to the end of the stage. But the total lack of save points, the brevity of your invulnerability sessions, and the limited effect of bringing Bigfoot in to wipe out everything on the screen, have me stuck on the fourth level of the game's first world.
A big problem is, yes, the hit box, which extends well beyond whatever physical space Burt occupies. Coupled with the varied interactions with foes, it becomes a big problem. Some baddies, if you land on them, you bounce up, Sonic-style, and can chain together attacks. This is useful because the more destruction you cause, the faster you fill up the meter that unleashes the roided-out Burt. Yet on some other enemies, you pass right through them after landing on them. When a series of three come at you, it's better to try to double-jump over all of them rather than take on any, because of the cheap death that so frequently comes from the hit box.
This is for an un- or marginally upgraded Burt. Things like extended invulnerability time, powered-up friends, and enhanced coin collection are all available with the coins you collect in every playthrough, and keep even if you fail the level. But the prices on upgrades are so large as to feel like Burt Destruction is steering you to an in-game purchase of virtual cash, just to acquire tools that make the game more manageable. Burt Destruction is free right now on iTunes, but in addition to adjusting the hit box, Burt Destruction should also lower its upgrade prices, or lower its list price of $1.99.
No matter what you do to improve Burt, nothing will change the fact that you get two hits, and two hits only, before you die, with no chance to recover the shield that deflects the first hit. Second, there are no checkpoints in any level, which means a weak death near the end of one run will force you to play all over again.
All of this combines to form what seems like an unintentionally tough platformer whose distinguishing quality—the humorous cutscenes—are kept from you by the repeated failures and easy deaths so frequently served. Some additional levels are planned, which means RunWilder has a longer story in mind here. With some tuning, this could still be a solid platformer with a wicked sense of humor.
You may be wondering why I took up a review of a friend's work. Well, consider this a roast. I may be pointing out and picking on flaws but, on the whole, I do find this work to be hilarious.
Burt Destruction [iTunes; currently free (normally $1.99)]
Burt Destruction [Google Play, $1.99]


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Is the supplied config with opensshd_3.7.1p1_dingetje intended to work "out-of--the-box" ??
.. or are there some things that need to be changed ??
What I want to do is set it up identically to "dropbear" with it enabled to the internet but using certificates but no password logins (using the -s switch).
Is there an example config that will achieve this ??
TIA Bob


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Karen's a classy lady.
We're so happy to celebrate Karen's 26th birthday with her. Originally brought to DRC to retire, Karen has proven time and again how much she loves affection. She is the star of our sea lion programs and loves to interact with guests. When she's not being cuddly, you can often find Karen sunbathing on one of her docks, or swimming around her habitat.
Happy Birthday Karen! We love you.


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High-net-worth clients demanding transparency, choice and convenience are driving a "revolution of digital commerce and direct-distribution" in wealth management, according to a report released in August by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
PwC noted that in addition to privacy and regulatory concerns, firm culture is also sometimes a hindrance to implementing new technology. "Wealth managers should reimagine their businesses through digital technology by adopting a relentlessly experiential view of their enterprise," the report suggested.
The need to adopt digital technology isn't been driven only by a younger client base that is more likely to prefer digital communication. PwC found the huge numbers of retiring boomers led to the proliferation of online retirement engines to deal with their needs. Similarly, the wealth transferred from all those boomers to their heirs could be as much as $41 trillion over the next 50 years, according to PwC.
The beneficiaries of that transfer have "specific expectations about client interaction, technology and access, which may drive demand for richer, more connected experiences." Indeed, a recent study found wealthy millennials preferred Mint.com over traditional wealth managers, and a Cogent Research study found "44% of Gen X and 70% of Gen Y investors use social media specifically for personal finance and investment purposes."
However, PwC pointed out that younger clients weren't the only ones interested in digital communication and called the notion that baby boomers don't use these tools a "myth." Their Internet usage is similar to that of millennials, according to a Pew Research Center study, and their differences are in along the lines of what they use, not how they use it: Boomers prefer tablets to millennials' smartphones. "Thus the question is not whether or not the baby boomer generation adopts digital, but rather, how firms deliver a sophisticated multichannel experience to them," PwC noted.
Another factor driving growth of digital communication is the changing demographics of the country. Americans are more diverse and are hitting traditional life milestones at different stages in their lives, if they're hitting them at all.
PwC identified four technology-specific trends that were driving innovation in the way wealth managers integrate digital tech in their practice.
First, of course, is the widespread adoption of social media among clients. PwC found 70% of wealthy investors have changed their relationship with a financial institution or made changes to their portfolio based on something they read on a social media account.
Mobile media, too, is changing the way investors consume information. A paper published in the MIT Technology Review found that in three years tablets have become as widespread as televisions and mobile phones became after 10 years. The Pew Internet & American Life Project found a quarter of consumers with smartphones prefer using them to access the Internet instead of their computers.
Big Data and analytics are helping wealth managers create personalized portfolio management strategies, PwC found.
Finally, the cloud is having a significant effect on wealth management practices, especially as they focus on operational and cost efficiencies.
One of the biggest drivers of advisors need to adopt digital strategies is competition. Automated online advice and investment forums are "disruptive entrants" to the market and give consumers more choices for advice.
"The need for an advisor solely as an expert to help a client manage through an opaque market is increasingly being called into question as information proliferates," according to PwC. "New, potentially disruptive competitors are forcing wealth managers to reconsider the role of the advisor as new channels for obtaining investment advice and selecting and evaluating advisors emerge – all with the backdrop of a rapidly changing regulatory landscape."
So what can advisors do to meet these challenges? There are three components of a connected digital experience, PwC said: discovery, engagement and transaction. In the discovery phase, advisors can use social marketing and social intelligence and analytics to connect with clients. Social intelligence and analytics will also help engagement with clients, as will social collaboration. Finally, digital mobility will help ensure transactions happen effectively.
Social collaboration is an important part of wealth managers' strategy because it affects how clients communicate with their advisor, as well as how the firm manages internal processes. Collaborative technologies like forums help position the advisor as an authority in clients' eyes. More connections can also help advisors create focused market niches with little cost.
The benefits of collaboration are more pronounced when they're the result of daily activities. PwC recommended advisors create incentives to push employees to adopt collaborative tools on a daily basis.
Enterprise co-creation is an offshoot of collaboration and engagement. As clients increasingly demand more complex planning, PwC suggested wealth management firms may find themselves partnering with third-party providers for as much as two-thirds of non-investment services like family governance, education or collectibles management.
PwC argued that as consumers become more accustomed to using mobile devices to conduct business, it reduces "the need and, we would submit, even the desire for direct interaction with their advisor." Consequently, digital mobility is critical to ensuring continued relationships.
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Obama, Left With Little Choice, Embraces Term 'Obamacare'
President Barack Obama used to consider it a slur to call the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) "Obamacare." He recently decided, though, to embrace the term. Some pundits believe he had little choice because the term has become so widely used.
"You want to call it 'Obamacare'? That's OK because I do care," Obama said in a March 16 speech.
Supporters of Obama's re-election can go to the campaign's website and order t-shirts, bumper stickers and buttons that say, "I Like Obamacare." For $35, you can get the "Obamacare Pack," which includes all three.
A March 23 blog post asked supporters to use the hashtag #ILikeObamacare. The campaign also has a Facebook page called "Obamacare."
"On 'Obamacare,' Republicans spent hundreds of millions branding 'Obamacare' as a negative, and we believe we can turn that to our advantage," Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for Obama's campaign, told The Washington Post on March 23. "The term is incredibly popular with the president's supporters, who will fight to the end to defend the law after 70 years of work to pass health reform."
This is a big change for a president who used to be offended by use of the term.
Different theories have been offered as to why Obama has embraced the term. One is that it is a strategic decision to reframe the debate over his signature health care initiative.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a political scientist with expertise in political communication, told Public Radio International that recasting language is common in politics.
"There were initially very strong attacks on Social Security and Medicare as names and as concepts," Jamieson explained. "Now people of all ages regard them as so integral to the way that government operates. So across time words change meaning as we live out the experiences that are being named by the words."
Washington Post political reporter Chris Cillizza believes that Obama had no choice but to embrace the term because it has become so commonly used. The Google politics blog noted that "Obamacare" has become, in 2012, more common in internet searches than "Affordable Care Act" or "Health Care Reform." Also, the top rising searches related to "Obamacare" are "Catholic Obamacare," "Romney Obamacare," "Supreme Court Obamacare" and "Romneycare."
Based upon Google's data, Cillizza concludes, "Given that reality, the White House – and President Obama's 2012 reelection team – had little choice but to try to throw their arms around the term, which has long been pushed as a pejorative by Republicans."
Jamieson and Cillizza's theories are, of course, not mutually exclusive. It may be that Obama is both forced to embrace the term and trying to make the best of it by turning it into a positive.
While Obama has embraced the term "Obamacare," news from the Supreme Court this week suggests that "Obamacare" may no longer exist by the November election.
The Supreme Court heard three days of oral arguments this week for a set of cases challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. After Tuesday's hearings, most court watchers believed that the most likely outcome is that the Court will strike down the individual mandate, a central feature of the law. Plus, if the Court strikes down the individual mandate it could strike down the entire law, when it delivers its opinion in June, arguing that the individual mandate is too central to the law to leave the rest intact.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, though, at a Wednesday press conference, that there is no "plan B" in place if the Supreme Court declares that the law is unconstitutional.
"I can tell you that there is no contingency plan that's in place," Earnest said. "We're focused on implementing the law. And we are confident that the law is constitutional."


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WhisperPower launches Twin-Power® technology for parallel connection of generators. Having recently already been upgraded, WhisperPower's complete range of compact Genverters - variable speed diesel generators - can now also be supplied with Twin-Power® technology. By simply connecting two units with the same power rating in parallel by means of a communication cable, connecting the Genverter's PMG inverters with each other via the 230 V AC outputs, the nominal power capacity and the peak power capacity can be doubled.
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WhisperPower has added the Supreme Pro battery charger series to its extensive range of products. The advanced Supreme Pro battery charger / power supply has been specifically developed to meet the increasingly stringent requirements that the shipping and industry installations impose on power electronics.
With the introduction of the Ion Power Basic, a safe Lithium Ion battery formulated with Lithium, Iron and Phosphate cells (LiFePO4), a new era has begun, according to WhisperPower, with the perfect sustainable alternative to the conventional lead-acid battery.
In light of the ever increasing demand for sustainable energy solutions for boats, campers and caravans, WhisperPower continues to expand the range of products available with the addition of new solar panels and charge regulators.
Thanks to the introduction of the WhisperPower WP-Sine 12/3000 sine wave inverter, yacht owners no longer need to limit their use of luxury equipment such as an espresso machine or an induction hob on board.
During METS 2018, WhisperPower will introduce a new line of fixed low-speed generators suitable for continuous operation and commercial applications. This upgrade to the SQ-range of 1500 rpm generators represents WhisperPower's anticipation of a market demand for low-noise and high-quality fixed-speed generators.
'Solar-fever' has struck at the WhisperPower headquarters. A team of enthusiastic young techies are working hard to get the new WhisperPower solar boat finished on time. It must be ready to sail by mid-June so that extensive sea trials can be carried out before the boat makes an appearance at the start of the Solar Sport One solar boat races on 22nd and 23rd June in Purmerend.
Following the successful launch of the Piccolo 4 kW Genverter variable speed generator, since the introduction in 2015 more than 1000 units have been sold, WhisperPower introduces a complete Piccolo range consisting of models up to 12 kW equipped with super noise-damping polyester sound enclosures.
Webasto and WhisperPower are pleased to announce they have entered into a Global Distribution Partnership Agreement, which was driven by the desire of Webasto Thermo & Comfort to add electrical power products and systems to their product offering and the ambition of WhisperPower to rapidly expand their global distribution.
To extend the range of a yacht or ship equipped with a Torqeedo Deep Blue Hybrid electric propulsion system, Torqeedo has, in close collaboration with WhisperPower, developed a 25 kW 350V DC variable speed diesel generator. Torqeedo has named the generator the Range Extender. The generator has been specifically designed for recreational and commercial applications as a back-up battery charger for the Torqeedo - BMW battery pack which supplies the energy for the propulsion engines (from 60 kW) and the onboard consumption.
Visitors to METS 2017 will be hard pressed to miss WhisperPower. From the moment they arrive at the entrance to the Europahal, they will come face-to-face with a brand-new Mercedes Demo bus equipped with and demonstrating the latest WhisperPower generators and systems in full operation. Once inside the RAI, they will find WhisperPower up and running yet again, this time in Hall 1. A big presence across two locations from which many new products will be introduced to the market.
During the course of the upcoming trade shows for the mobile industry, including the Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham next week (Webasto stand number 5D 10), WhisperPower will be launching the Genverter Scalino generator. This new model has been brought to market following the highly successful introduction of the Genverter Piccolo for maritime applications.
Following the introduction of the new WhisperPower 8 and 10 kVA Genverter models earlier this year, the company is now set to launch a premium 15 kVA completely water-cooled compact-generator. This latest addition to WhisperPower's next generation of onboard diesel generators comes complete with inverter and an advanced touch screen remote panel as well as the option to be supplied with all installation accessories such as a ABYC compliant Water/Gas separator, Water Lock, water inlets and hoses.
With the 'New School' energy systems in kit-form, WhisperPower has launched a 'plug and play' solution for onboard electrical power needs for sailing yachts, power boats and small commercial craft. The 'New School' systems, developed in-house by WhisperPower, make staying on board as comfortable as possible without disturbing the environment with running engines and generators.
For WhisperPower, the SMM trade show will be the launchpad for the promotion of a wide range of industrial battery chargers, inverters and inverter / charger combinations for the professional and international commercial shipping industry.
Marine Works, based in Gdansk, has been selected as the new WhisperPower marine distribution partner in Poland. This latest cooperation forms part of WhisperPower's continued growth and expansion of its extensive dealer network worldwide.
More and more yards choose WhisperPower as their preferred supplier. WhisperPower BV has signed a 3 year contract with Dutch boat builder Wajer & Wajer to supply electrical power systems for all of their yachts. Furthermore WhisperPower has been selected by Neptune Marine Shipbuilding as the supplier for the entire electrical power system on board of the Elling E6, which at 65 ft this exciting new model is the largest in the E-series.
WhisperPower B.V., Drachten, the Netherlands announces the signing of a power electronics manufacturing agreement with PBF B.V. the Dutch subsidiary of SFC Energy, a leading provider of hybrid power solutions to the stationary and mobile power generation markets. Whisper Power will have the full range of their popular AC PowerCube high power inverter series produced at SFC Energy's manufacturing site in Cluj, Romania, which already produces other high quality power electronics of PBF.
During the London Boat Show, WhisperPower signed a contract with Webasto Thermo & Comfort UK for the exclusive distribution of WhisperPower products in the UK.
Over the past year WhisperPower has extensively modified its products and systems resulting in energy systems that are quieter, more compact, lighter and safer. Systems that are being brought to market under the title 'New School'.
The first yacht to be fitted with an intelligent, hybrid technology-based power and propulsion system developed by WhisperPower, a San Lorenzo 106 Hybrid, has recently started cruising. This system comprises of, amongst other components, two 150 kW WhisperPower HyGen variable speed generators which together provide up to 300 kW, of which at least 60 kW is used for the "hotel load" and 240 kW is used for propulsion.
WhisperPower International has achieved a steep growth in sales during the first 6 months of 2015's financial year. With a rise of over 50%, the financial performance of the company, founded in 2007 and active in the marine market since 2010, was exceptionally good.
During the upcoming Hiswa In-Water show, WhisperPower, based in the Frisian town of Drachten, is set to introduce three new touchscreen control panels for their various energy systems. In addition, the WhisperPower AC PowerCube, a high power sine wave inverter which is supplied as the "silent generator" with WhisperPower energy systems, will also be on display.
Following the strategic cooperation, established earlier this year, between WhisperPower and Diesel Center in the field of intelligent hybrid technology based power and propulsion systems, both companies have now signed a distribution agreement. As of July 1st, Diesel Center will act as a main distributor for WhisperPower in Italy.
WhisperPower, designer and manufacturer of modern hybrid autonomous energy systems, has added two new distributors to its fast expanding distribution network. DongKang M-Tech Co., Ltd., based in Seoul, has been selected as their new marine distribution partner in South Korea whilst OVLOV Marine, based in Auckland, has been appointed as their partner in New Zealand.
WhisperPower is further developing and expanding its Premium Service Partner network for the maritime market in the Benelux region. Increasingly more yards, installers and end users are turning to WhisperPower. In addition to the popular Orange range of battery chargers, inverters, combi's and batteries, WhisperPower offer, and have been doing so for many years, the well known WhisperPower Generators.
As of April 1st 2015, WhisperPower GmbH has been established as a subsidiary of the Dutch manufacturer WhisperPower B.V.. Based in Schleswig, WhisperPower GmbH will operate within the maritime, mobile and off-grid market sectors. The company is headed up by Ralf Tapken and Roel ter Heide who will be working alongside a third partner Ansgar Hinrichs.
Following the successful launch of the All-In-One PowerStation in the challenging and renowned exacting marine market sector, WhisperPower is now introducing this hybrid energy system to additional markets which use network-independent energy systems. With the All-in-One PowerStation, WhisperPower meets the growing demand for complete integrated solutions: super-quiet generator systems with inverter, battery, battery charger and power distribution all combined in one "box".
WhisperPower and Diesel Center, a leading propulsion engine distributor in Italy and exclusive partner of MTU, have established a strategic cooperation in the field of intelligent hybrid technology based power and propulsion systems for high performance yachts from 30 – 60 meters.
This year again, The Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) confirmed its status as the world-leading B2B event of its kind. A record number of 21,086 visitors were welcomed by a record number of 1358 exhibitors. Crucially, early results of the post-show surveys prove that visitors and exhibitors alike were pleased with the results of the three-day event. METS also attracted 6.5% more international visitors and 3% more decision-makers.
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